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Speaker 1: I'm Jonathan Bernstein, a columnist for Bloomberg View. Barack Obama's

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Speaker 1: Chris Choke can be heard for the next few minutes

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Speaker 1: ecommist at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. We're talking about the

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Speaker 1: FED decision yesterday and the FED to switch in focus

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Speaker 1: to what's going on around the world. Would you say, Chris,

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Speaker 1: given the fed's forecast at least what they laid out

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Speaker 1: yesterday or within the next couple of meetings. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't really it wasn't very sad factory her explanation

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Speaker 1: the do the markets tell you anything about what's going on?

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